Productivity Improvement – beyond metrics and tools

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Many managers (am sure) would be spooked by the results that they get out of team in measurable time frame. Why collective person hours of team results in much lesser output? The task which is planned to be over in 1 week is still work in progress at end of ...

Impact of playing blame game

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

How simple it is to pin a failure or misdeed on another person or situation or company. This is case with almost all of us. This is easier way out. If nothing works out blame it on God and bad luck. In context of professionals working in corporate environment, this ...

Objective decision making – are we really able to do it?

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

How much of the decision making affected by our opinion and/or feelings towards the people involved? I am sure lots of decisions are taken based on our personal view and what we assume about the situation. Decision making is mostly driven by an instinct, which invariable guides our mind to ...

Managing high performing team member and allegations of Favoritism

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Handling high performing team member (in the project) becomes bit of dilemma for project leader / manager and requires special and specific efforts on part of manager to ensure that high performing team member is actively engaged and productive. In doing so – manager does a tight rope walk – ...

Performance in corporates

Monday, October 31st, 2011

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi One can study optics, chemistry, and mechanics through a syllabus to become a professional technologist. The key attribute of the scientific process is that the outcome will be ...

Wanted: A smile after work day

Friday, October 21st, 2011

    The above saying of Sanskrit means Contentment is the highest gain; good company1 is the highest course. Stress is omnipresent in our lives, be at work, at home, even going for a movie on a weekend fearing in the mind about the traffic, parking and probable dents and road rage that ...

Job Change – what is your trigger?

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

The right time to start looking for job change is when you start dreading going to office in the morning. There can be various reasons transitory to chronic in nature – but if you want to sleep over and look for reasons to not go to office – you have ...